INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ON THE PRINCIPLES APPLYING TO THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION LOOKING TO THE SYNTHESIS OF PENICILLIN WHEREAS, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, declare that they are engaged in a common undertaking to secure as promptly as possible the production of an adequate supply of high quality synthetic penicillin, or a therapeutic equivalent, at rea- sonable prices; and, WHEREAS, in furtherance of this common undertaking, the Gov- ernment of the United States has entered into contractual arrange- ments with academic, industrial or governmental research workers in the United States to secure the effective participation of skilled sci- entists in a coordinated and concentrated effort synthetically to pro- duce penicillin, or a therapeutic equivalent, including an arrangement for the exchange among the participants of information on the puri- fication, structure, and synthesis of penicillin, or a therapeutic equiv- alent; and, WHmERAS, the Government of the United States under these ar- rangements has, with respect to discoveries and inventions made in the course of the work pursuant to these arrangements, secured (a) the right to determine the relative value of the scientific contributions made to such discoveries and inventions by its participants, (b) the right to allocate among its participants the title to, and any and all rights in and under, patents covering such discoveries and inventions in such a manner as equitably to recognize their relative scientific con- tributions thereto, (c) the right to require the patentee of such dis- coveries and inventions to grant to the Government of the United States a non-exclusive, royalty-free license under any such patents for certain governmental purposes, and (d) the right to require the patentee of such discoveries and inventions to grant to others as may be determined to be in the national interest non-exclusive licenses at reasonable royalties; and, WHEREAs, the Government of the United Kingdom has, for the same purpose and as part of the common undertaking, entered into similar arrangements with research workers in the United Kingdom; and, WHEREAS, the Government of the United States and the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom, in order to increase the effectiveness of their common undertaking, have begun, for transmission to their re- spective participants, the interchange of scientific information pertain- ing to the purification, structure, or synthesis of penicillin, or a thera- peutic equivalent; and, WHMEas, the Government of the United States and the Government of the United Kingdom now desire to formalize the terms on which 1486
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